Large upload amount that I can't figure out...

Large upload amount that I can't figure out...

On Monday evening I was online, with a few pages open. A few pages of this community, CNN's main page, Facebook and Twitter. There were others here and there, but those ones mentioned were the only ones open for a long time. After a few hours, I checked Glasswire, which I often do. To my surprise, there was something that had uploaded over 100MB of data during this time. I searched the IP address assigned to the upload, but I'm at a loss. Any ideas what this was? It was definitely one of the webpages, as the upload was done via Chrome. It's the top host entry, which I opened so you can see the IP address. 23MB download and 102.1MB upload.

I think it could be related to an ad or something else on CNN, even though I have an ad-blocker installed and they are all blocked because of it. I couldn't match up the times of the upload with CNN, as I again opened it later, which, with Chrome, wipes out the previous CNN entry and just has the newest one in its history. A dumb feature for history, but it is what it is.

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Chrome does give you the warning for, and the option to allow or deny, location requests by sites. It's just that I know that sometimes ads can do more than just advertise, so if it is an ad, or ads, that were playing regardless of my ad blocker without me noticing, I wonder if it was trying to collect some kind of info. Being that it was an upload rather than download, I thought this could be the cause. I'll probably never know, but I'll definitely keep a better eye on open pages, and especially CNN.

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Update:

I think I'm going to reinstall Windows. Today I've had 35MB of upload. Half of it being from my Webroot Antivirus. Something odd is going on. I'm just going to save everything I need to and reinstall. I already have the newest Windows 10 ISO on a flash drive, ready to go. Maybe it will fix it, maybe it won't, but at least I'll have a little piece of mind, as I really don't like what's going on right now. Not so much the data, but not knowing why it's happening.